Fill My Bowl 21-11-2020
T Srimadhaven | Mohanapriya Singaravelu
Overview
This app aims to help the homeless and those in need of food and supply. It acts as a bridge between those with excess and those in need of food and other basic supplies for livelihood. If you spot a homeless person on the roads, post the location and a small description. A person with excess food can look at these posts to find people to donate their food.Or, if a person finds a community fridge, they can post the location of it which can be seen by other people with supplies and they can drop it. People in need will pick up available supplies from the community fridge. The app is implemented using Flutter and Firebase. Flutter apps can be deployed in both iOS and Android platforms. This increases the user base as it makes the app accessible to all. This is a community driven app and relies on its users for its outreach.
Goals
To spot and bring the helping hands to the countless homeless and people in dire need of help scattered around the city. To expand the scope of helping people to a much greater extent. Encourage and give people an opportunity to be a part of the process in helping those needy people.
Specifications
Our app works based on user community inputs and gives an opportunity to every person to do the best they can to help the needy people who are barely surviving. Our app uses GPS location to tag the current location of the help needed with a user given description can allow other people with the ability of helping an opportunity to help someone who is in dire need of help or a community fridge which again will bridge the gap between the supply and the needy. We have designed the app and the idea in such a way that it has immense future capabilities of scaling up. The possible scaling includes: Insights of index of needy people per area, which can be a very useful resource of data for the city planners and city corporation. NGOs leverage this platform to increase and expand their community and humanitarian services.
App Modules
‘ I Spotted needy person ‘ : ‘ I Spotted needy person ’ module is solely driven by the users. The users can tag the place when they spot a needy person. This information is posted to public view to attract the people who have supplies and willing to help ‘ I got supplies ‘ :
‘ I got supplies ’ module is also solely driven by the users. The users can view the tagged places and the description, which can be filtered to show results based on the distance. These people who are able to get the supplies to the people in need can drop their supplies at the tagged gps location.
‘ I Spotted Community Fridge‘ :
‘ I Spotted Community Fridge ’ module is solely driven by the users. The users can tag the place when they spot a Community Fridge. This information is posted to public view to attract the people who have supplies and willing to help can drop the supplies.
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